CHICO — When you Google The LoLos, the Chico band is the first on the search list, followed by Brazilian swimwear. But the band plans to soon champion their rival who shares the same name.

The LoLos comprised of Matt Heyden on vocals, Ben Colbeck on guitar, McKenzie Warner on drums and bassist Tom Nasr have been playing with this line up for almost two years and take no prisoners during live shows.

The band of four equipped with scruffy facial hair — minus Warner, whose fresh-face cheeks disqualify her from her bearded men bandmates — will perform Friday at 1078 Gallery for their album release party.

Beards aside, the band's most recent album titled, "XOXO" encompasses the themes of love and dreams, Heyden said. It works into every song, even the dark side of those realms.

The sophomore album is enchanted with clever lyrics and intriguing melodies. They even have a song tipping the hat to the bands mascot, a taxidermied beaver head Heyden purchased at a thriftstore, in "Chü Chü (The Beavers Lament)."

Along with writing music, relentlessly practicing, warning off over adorning fans kissing hands and the occasional electric shock on stage, it's apparent The LoLos are friends first before bandmates.

With their instruments set aside and beer glasses traced with foam laid in front of them, it's their friendship that evokes a sense of unison in the four.

"It's good to know you can do what you love with people that you love," Warner said. "And that's a huge part of how we write and how we practice, and it really comes off in our live performances and the energy that we share between each other and that's something I don't think you see with a lot of bands."

Heyden and Colbeck met when performing in a funk and soul cover band. When the two decided to venture into their own musical endeavor creating originals, they wandered into something great.

"We kept writing music and bringing it to the band but it wasn't really the right style," Colbeck said. "We were going a bit darker and a bit rockier than the band. We had a steel pan, and you can't get real dark with a steel pan."

After parting ways from the coverband, Heyden and Colbeck were on the search for a drummer and bassist to round out their sound.

The plan was to be a funk and soul band, but that didn't happen at all, instead what emerged is something with more depth.

Soon Warner filled in behind her six-piece Pearl drumset carrying a melodic sound. The band later replaced their original bassist with Nasr whose blues bass tone completed The LoLos eclectic music.

"I really try to get lost in whatever that song is trying to represent, and that's how I decide to play the drums," Warner said.

Her style really compliments Nasr's bass playing where it fills out in the in the right spots, a pocket, Nasr said, is really easy to fill with Warner's drumming.

Heyden's cheery voice is a modest tease to his raspy baritone vocals cloaking the bands indie rock music, but their sound hones in a lot of different styles through the rock music filter.

"No matter how diverse you get, you're still going to sound like your band," Colbeck said. "It will still be your sound. That's the fun part apart it."

Their professionalism as serious musicians not only reflects in their sound and presence on stage but also through the way they do business. The band is taking serious steps to share and protect their music.

Chü Chü Records is a publishing company The LoLos recently started to secure their intellectual property. The affiliation with The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers will work with the band and seek out royalties if their music is being played on the radio, television and any other outlets.

With their own publishing company intact, they get full the percent of the performance rights instead of 50 percent of the writer's rights.

"It's the modern ethos for musicians," Colbeck said. " You can't just be good at music and have fun anymore. You've got to be a bit more savvy about it in every market. Get your fingers in all the pies."

Even with the recent release of their second album, the band is already in the mix of conceiving their third, "Spirits Rebellious." Following suite of the sophomore album, Heyden thinks their third record will also lend itself to a continuous theme track by track. A little more story telling and a little self-introspective.

"We're always moving forward," Warner said. "We're always pushing our limits to what we want to write and where we want to go just because we're such a forward-thinking band. We're in it for the long haul."